Opinion | Rep. Eric Swalwell: 'Our health — our children’s health — cannot be a commodity subject to market forces, and a poor child’s fate must not depend on the charity of others.' - NBCNewsTHINK
For all the dusty policy papers we read and all the hearings we hold on Capitol Hill, there’s no place better to learn about the American health care system — its strengths, and its immense shortcomings — than in a hospital, among the afflicted and their families.
Yet it shouldn’t be a matter of luck or employment. My wife, Brittany, and I talked to too many other parents in that hospital who knew that, as soon as they were done praying for their kids’ recovery, they would start praying for some sort of deliverance from the avalanche of bills that would surely put them in debt for a long time.We saw one gravely ill girl whose parents never seemed to be at her bedside.
And beyond the immediate costs, we were struck during our hospital stay by the tragedy of so many children facing cancer or rare diseases with little hope — any parent’s worst nightmare. We entered the hospital with a reasonable expectation that we’d be taking Cricket home afterward. Too many families don’t have that solace, and can see nothing ahead except pain, loss, grief and then debt.
We need to invest in finding cures in our lifetime to our most insidious diseases, from ALS and Alzheimer’s to cancer and cystic fibrosis. We can achieve this, in part, by increasing funding for the National Institutes of Health and giving them long-term certainty of their budget.
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